Dedicated Partner Venues
National Concert Hall
Venue History
The National Concert Hall is Ireland’s national home for music and one of Dublin’s most recognisable cultural venues.
Located at Earlsfort Terrace in the heart of the city, the National Concert Hall hosts an extensive programme of concerts, performances and cultural events while also providing distinctive spaces for corporate, social and hospitality occasions.
Events at the National Concert Hall
The venue can support a wide variety of occasions, including conferences, meetings, receptions, corporate hospitality, launches, private dining and events connected to the Hall’s performance programme.
The different spaces within the National Concert Hall make it possible to cater everything from smaller meetings and receptions to larger corporate and cultural events.
Catering by With Taste
With Taste has been a catering partner at the National Concert Hall since 2013 and has extensive experience delivering hospitality around a live performance venue.
The nature of the Hall means catering often has to work around precise programme timings. Our team is experienced in planning service for concentrated intervals, pre-performance hospitality, post-concert receptions and events taking place alongside the wider performance schedule.
Services can include breakfast meetings, tea and coffee, pastries and refreshments, conference and meeting catering, working lunches, canapés, bowl food, buffet service, formal dinners, gala events, interval hospitality and post-performance receptions.
We also have extensive experience supporting artists, production teams and backstage requirements, where practical food, flexible timings and careful dietary management are particularly important.
Why With Taste at the National Concert Hall
Our long-term experience within the venue gives us an understanding of the operational rhythm that is essential in a performance environment.
Food preparation, service staffing and guest flow must often be coordinated around a fixed curtain time, interval or performance schedule. Our teams plan backwards from these timings so that service is efficient without ever feeling rushed.
Whether it is a breakfast meeting, sponsor reception, gala event or concert-night hospitality, With Taste combines food quality with the flexibility required by a live cultural venue.
Speak to us about catering your next event at the National Concert Hall.
Following an open tender process, With Taste (Banqueting Food Systems Ltd.) has been the catering suppliers at the National Concert Hall since 2013. The contract was again awarded to With Taste in 2016 following the required retendering process. With Taste operates a wide range of catering facilities and services to the National Concert Hall, including the Terrace Restaurant; informal catering facilities; a bar service at three locations and a back-stage artist restaurant. With Taste also caters on a daily basis for a wide range of the National Concert Hall’s internal and external clients, including Interval and post-concert receptions and corporate catering that ranges from breakfast meetings to formal dinners and gala events. The National Concert Hall has enjoyed an excellent long-term working relationship with With Taste. The company carries out its business professionally and efficiently in a manner that is collaborative, supportive, open, honest and flexible. I am happy to recommend With Taste as an excellent business partner.